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- Rabbi Pinchas’ Writings
- An Idea for the Month of Tishrei
- Charms (Segulos)
- Sacred Objects
- Discovering the Grave in Shepetovka
- Tunes
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- The Torah of Rabbi Pinchas of Koretz was recorded by many writers
throughout the Ukraine, Podolia and Galicia. Following are examples of photocopies
of the title pages of these manuscripts.
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- “Were I able to write what I say, I would enliven many souls”.
- (Rabbi Pinchas of Koretz)
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- An Idea
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Rosh HaShanah
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- A person’s nature is that when he faces a trial and feels unsure, he
becomes full of negative emotions, tension and sometimes dispair and
anger towards the judge.
- Who can feel confident towards being judged by the Creator?!
- If so, how can we approach the day of judgment without despair and with
positive feelings?
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- Fright stems from a feeling of estrangement. To connect, one must understand the
opposite side and plunge his depths.
- The depth of the judgment on Rosh HaShanah is the revelation of the
Creator’s kingship in the world.
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- Tishrei
- A thing’s name indicates its contents and meaning.
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- What are letters?
- Letters are “signs”, a means of conveying some meaning between people or
from one point to another.
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- The alphabet in reverse order means an opposite flow, the prevention of
influence, condensation, limitation and the attribute of judgment.
- The alphabet arranged in its direct order means a direct flow, progress,
influence, giving and the attribute of kindness.
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- The problem does not stem from the sour food itself but from the person’s
sour face when he eats it.
- (Rabbi Pinchas of Koretz)
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- Rabbi Pinchas’s wisdom encompassed the science of medicine. He was especially known for the segulos
he would give the ill.
- By the way, he even then
determined, as opposed to the common opinion, that smoking is unhealthy!
- Many segulos are known as
originating with Rabbi Pinchas and we present one of them, connected
with Tishrei:
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- What’s special about this Chanukkah lamp is that it has two shamashim.
- Since when do we light two shamashim on Chanukkah?
- There’s an interesting historical reason. The European kings always wanted to
impose taxes that would especially harm the Jews. One of these taxes was the candle tax. Candles were always an outstanding
Jewish commodity: for the Sabbath, for yahrtzeit, Chanukkah, the
synagogue, etc.
- A tax was collected for every candle bought. The Jews therefore wanted to limit the
use of candles to a minimum. What
did they do?
- As on the eve of every Sabbath, a woman must light two candles also for
the Sabbath of Chanukkah. In
addition, the husband must light a shamash in his lamp. As the halachah allows us to regard
the same candle as a Sabbath candle and a shamash, the wife would kindle
her Sabbath candles on the Chanukkah lamp so that they could serve as shamashim
and thus save candles.
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- Discovering the Grave in Shepetovka
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- Rabbi Pinchas passed away and was buried in Shepetovka on his way to
Eretz Israel.
- The cemetery in Shepetovka was ancient.
The residents inaugurated a new cemetery a long time after his
demise.
- Over the years, Shepetovka grew and surrounded the old cemetery on all
sides. After the Second World
War, the authorities destroyed the old cemetery and built the center of
the town on the site.
- The Jews were afraid to move
Rabbi Pinchas’s bones and erected a memorial for him in the new
cemetery, which still stands.
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